Motivational Quotes

Fear

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

- Parsons, Wendell

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

2.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

3.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

4.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

5.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

6.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

7.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

8.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

9.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

10.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

11.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

12.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

13.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

14.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

15.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

16.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

17.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

18.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

19.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

21.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

22.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

24.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

26.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

28.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

29.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

31.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

32.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

33.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

35.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

36.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

37.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

38.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

39.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

40.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

41.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

42.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

43.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

44.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

45.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

46.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

47.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

48.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

49.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

50.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.